Dates of written Rgveda

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

George Thompson <GthomGt at CS.COM> wrote:

>I seriously doubt that Patrick Olivelle *gave* you this impression.  It
>would
>seem to me rather that you just took it.  Patrick Olivelle knows that 500
>BCE
>is too late for the latest strata of the RV.

It seems to me that the confusion is due to not specifying what is the
extent of the text that gets to be called RV. For most Indologists, it is
primarily the samhitaa portion, whereas a lot of Prof. Olivelle's comments
relate to the AraNyakas and upanishads.

Vidyasankar
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